Healing the Impact of Technology

Lisa Romero 

Most of us believe that our potential for inner liberation and true freedom lies in the
inner world of our capacities for thinking, feeling, and self-determined will. However,
discovering how unfree we actually are has always been one of the necessary steps
in awakenings on the inner development path. The foundations of our inner freedom,
as well as our inner unfreedom, are greatly influenced during the years of child development. 

Our patterns of thinking, our feelings, and our will-impulses are all influenced directly by
the community in which we grow up. With our outer lives increasingly permeated by
technology, we are now faced with the effects that technology brings to bear on our inner
lives, as well as its artificial influence on the development of our thinking, feeling, and willing.
Technology is forming the future of our communities and, in doing so, extending its pervasive
influence into our inner capacities as community members.
“We must be prepared, as a collective humanity, with capacities and inner strengths enabling us
to freely choose the form of community life that we determine to be needed for the future
of humanity. We need to establish communities that are dedicated to human freedom—communities
in which the health of the community, the education of the child, and social life are imbued with
impulses supportive of the cultivation of human freedom.” —Lisa Romero

• Contents

• Introduction
  1. Reducing the Impact of Technology on the Senses
  2. Supporting the Living Nature of Learning
  3. Our Individual Task toward Spirit-led Community